With all my technical woes last week I forgot to post the link to the final 10 songs in Pitchfork Media’s Top 200 Songs of the 60’s feature.

It was a great list overall, and while I’m not surprised by their #1 pick, I couldn’t agree less. Is it an important song in terms of its [...]

As a Swedish late-night anchor dutifully analyzed poll results on the news, viewers were shocked to witness a hardcore porn film playing on one of the monitors behind him.
Everything was going as planned on the midnight news broadcast, until the Czech hard porn film “Sex Tails,” came on the pay channel Canal Plus on the [...]

Max Mayfield, Director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, says Katrina was just a spit and a cough.
A tireless advocate for hurricane preparedness, he suggests that it’s only a matter of time before the big one — the really big one — makes landfall.
The difficulty, of course, lies in the way coastal real estate development [...]

Through the whole Mel Gibson ordeal, something’s been gnawing at me. Well, something beyond the drunk driving, the anti-Semitic raving, the feeble attempts to deny any personal responsibility (”the booze did it”), the alchemical attempts to put a positive P.R. spin on the whole affair by claiming to want to apologize to Jews, and finally, [...]